Take, for example, bridegroom, or groom. In Middle English (ca. 1200-1500), the original term was goom (= man). The extra -r- was added centuries ago by false association with someone who works in a stable to care for horses. America's greatest lexicographer, Noah Webster, fought in vain in the early 19th century to make a man on his wedding day the bridegoom and all his attendants the goomsmen. But the English-speaking people would have none of it - they wanted their extra -r-, and they got it. The harmless mutation survived, and today we're wedded to it.
—from Garner's Modern English Usage, a book by Bryan Garner
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Rank | Username | WPM | Accuracy | Date |
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754. | Gijs (gijswijs) | 58.89 | 98% | 2020-03-02 |
755. | Darren (baochun2) | 58.88 | 95% | 2020-01-14 |
756. | linkai (linkaixd) | 58.85 | 94% | 2020-12-16 |
757. | nicoTan (nicotanzil) | 58.82 | 95% | 2020-05-13 |
758. | Squeak (oweozz) | 58.74 | 95% | 2020-02-21 |
759. | Luis (regneva17) | 58.62 | 94% | 2019-09-13 |
760. | Styles (cmstly) | 58.60 | 96% | 2020-03-17 |
761. | Hieu (txhieu) | 58.59 | 97% | 2019-11-01 |
762. | Carson (carsonalh) | 58.51 | 98% | 2020-07-02 |
763. | Song (quot) | 58.44 | 96% | 2020-01-24 |
764. | Michael (tigerdriger) | 58.41 | 97% | 2020-03-24 |
765. | Richard (jorimi) | 58.37 | 95% | 2020-03-06 |
766. | (aninactive) | 58.23 | 95% | 2020-08-03 |
767. | xd (palmate) | 58.22 | 96% | 2020-04-02 |
768. | Ahmad Gamal (agazzaz) | 58.20 | 98% | 2020-01-13 |
769. | Hogenix (hogenix) | 58.17 | 96% | 2020-04-01 |
770. | Eugene (rawners) | 58.16 | 96% | 2020-03-24 |
771. | Schnitzel (cthulhuai) | 58.13 | 93% | 2019-12-02 |
772. | Niklas (exergy) | 58.13 | 96% | 2019-09-03 |
773. | skywalker123 (skywalker123) | 58.12 | 95% | 2020-09-25 |
774. | Emdadul (emdad439) | 58.03 | 97% | 2019-11-05 |
775. | Hellow (hellowi_99) | 58.02 | 97% | 2020-03-12 |
776. | Magishian (magishian) | 57.97 | 99% | 2020-09-06 |
777. | Pragyan (swordfish999) | 57.87 | 95% | 2020-10-24 |
778. | Sujin (sujexplorer) | 57.81 | 94% | 2020-02-13 |
779. | Mich (michdaevinci) | 57.77 | 96% | 2020-08-03 |
780. | Eoin (eoing) | 57.71 | 95% | 2020-12-01 |
781. | Vaibhav (vibhix) | 57.67 | 96% | 2019-12-31 |
782. | sean (tak32) | 57.64 | 95% | 2020-06-29 |
783. | anime (amweeb) | 57.54 | 97% | 2020-02-18 |
Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
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Default (English) | 1,218 | 77.00 | September 2, 2019 |
ᗜ Stenography | 1 | 55.97 | May 27, 2023 |